Bob Dylan - 1965

Courant Archives

Dylan famously plugged in his Stratocaster and went electric on July 25, 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival. As late as Oct. 30 of that year, however, when Dylan performed at the Bushnell Memorial in Hartford, he was still being promoted as a peace-loving Tambourine Man, a "singer, composer, poet and humorist," a "folk poet." "With a mussed shock of hair topping gaunt features," an unidentified Courant reporter wrote, "Dylan appears an outlandish, Chaplinesque figure." See the story here.

Dylan famously plugged in his Stratocaster and went electric on July 25, 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival. As late as Oct. 30 of that year, however, when Dylan performed at the Bushnell Memorial in Hartford, he was still being promoted as a peace-loving Tambourine Man, a "singer, composer, poet and humorist," a "folk poet." "With a mussed shock of hair topping gaunt features," an unidentified Courant reporter wrote, "Dylan appears an outlandish, Chaplinesque figure." See the story here. (Courant Archives)

Dylan famously plugged in his Stratocaster and went electric on July 25, 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival. As late as Oct. 30 of that year, however, when Dylan performed at the Bushnell Memorial in Hartford, he was still being promoted as a peace-loving Tambourine Man, a "singer, composer, poet and humorist," a "folk poet." "With a mussed shock of hair topping gaunt features," an unidentified Courant reporter wrote, "Dylan appears an outlandish, Chaplinesque figure." See the story here.